Email Fraud Can be Beaten
By Linda Marinus
Published: Oct 30, 2007
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First of all, I have to ask you: Are you VERY careful to always send group emails using the BCC: function? If you don't use this simple tool, then you and everyone you know is at risk for email fraud. Email fraud cannot be successful unless it can replicate and reach as many innocent mailboxes as possible. If the bad guys can't find your address, then they can't target you!
Another simple rule to follow is: "If it seems to good to be true, it IS!" Bill Gates will NOT send you money. Neither will some poor stranded millionaire in the Sudan. There are no "tracking devices" on email forwards so that some poor child with a deadly disease will get $.01 for every email you send on. Your friend's friend does NOT have a friend who is a lawyer and knows that "this one" will really happen!
Oh yeah ... one more thing ... you won't be besieged by bad luck (or good luck for that matter) if you don't send that darned email off to 30 people within 1 minute of receiving it. HONEST!
